As long as we're discussing favorites, I'll set the wayback machine for ... well, a really long time ago, and mention one of my favorite providers ever, who I always kind of had a sentimental attachment to because she was the very first girl I ever saw who wasn't an AMP girl.
She used numerous names over the years, but the first name I knew her by was Heather. When I first encountered her, she was running print ads in the old "In Pittsburgh" newspaper for "Massage by Heather". She had a massage studio on the second floor of a storefront on Walnut Street in Shadyside. Very pretty, long haired blonde with big boobs. I saw her *a lot*. At the time, I lived nearby, and I could actually walk to her studio from my apartment. I learned a lot about how the "business side" of the hobby worked from her. Eventually she started running multiple ads under multiple names with different phone numbers. I still recall being amused when I'd be visiting with her, and she'd answer the phone to talk to a potential client who was asking for info - she'd give a name of a girl who was available (i.e., her...) and a physical description. Usually the caller would thank her for the info, and hang up. Then a different phone would ring, she'd answer and go through the same routine, giving a different name and a slightly different description, and the call would end. Then yet another phone would ring, same routine, different name, slightly different description than either of the other two she gave. After the calls, she'd laugh, and tell me, "It was the same guy. Sometimes you have to fool them - if they don't think you're a new girl they haven't seen before, they don't want to come back."
Eventually, she closed her studio in Shadyside, and went on to become the very first manager at Elite Tanning, which was owned by her aunt. In addition to being the manager, she also saw clients herself, and I saw her there a bunch of times. She did pretty well there, as far as keeping the place running well - for a while. Unfortunately, she had a bit of a drinking problem, and she started showing up for work drunk, and then drinking all day while she was there (including during sessions...), and she got sloppy and careless. That led to the first time Elite got raided. After that, they were closed for about two months, and when they finally reopened, she'd been fired by her aunt (who then got Cris to run the place for her, and now Cris is the owner...).
She then set up an incall apartment on the South Side, then she moved to a place in Washington Plaza by the Civic Arena, then she opened a place in Market Square above what is now Primanti's (which I think actually used to be the old Maya massage parlor, back in the day - before my time), and then the last place she had was an apartment in the Downtown high rise above the post office (across from where Max and Erma's used to be - same building where Corrie, formerly of Summertime, used to have an incall apartment). She was also posting ads on ASPD at the time under the name "Busty Barbie" - until she got a cease and desist letter from Mattel (no lie...). I kind of followed her around to all these places - she'd have other girls working for her from time to time, and I saw some of them, but I'd always try to see her if she was willing to take an appointment (which, at that point, she often wasn't willing to, preferring to let the other girls make money for her). Over the years, we started to become less like provider/client, and more like actual friends (who I just happened to give money to every once in a while in exchange for getting her naked...). I worked downtown at the time, and sometimes we'd meet up just to grab lunch and chat.
And then ... she just vanished. Disappeared into thin air. I eventually came to learn that there was a warrant out for her arrest in Allegheny County. She always had very, very expensive tastes, which couldn't always be supported by her income. This eventually led to an issue where she'd been leasing a Hummer H1, which she really loved, but couldn't afford the lease payments anymore. So she decided that she'd just keep it and stop paying for it. So she got in the car and just drove off, never to be seen again. Or at least, so I thought, at the time...
Eventually, mca9276 (may he rest in peace) and I independently stumbled across her at about the same time. We found her living in either Miami or Fort Lauderdale (I forget which one now), and advertising on Eros. So I reached out to her (MCA and I both did, actually) just to see how she was doing. She did reply back to me - said that she was delighted to hear from us, but that she didn't care to discuss the circumstances of her sudden departure from Pittsburgh, and "please don't tell anyone that you talked to me, or where I am".
Sadly, this story doesn't have a happy ending. The only reason I feel that I can talk about it now is that I learned not long ago that she passed on several years ago. I don't know what happened, but I do know that she was way too young.
Like I said, I always had kind of a sentimental attachment to her, especially because we became pretty good friends. You never forget your first...
